The personification of the nation as a woman, mother or goddess can be traced back to the nationalist struggle for independence and found expression in literature, visual culture and performance arts....
Ahead of the 44th FIDE Chess Olympiad, Hachette India on Tuesday announced the expanded paperback edition of five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand's widely acclaimed memoir "Mind M...
"Words can be like tiny doses of arsenic: They are swallowed unnoticed, appear to have no effect, and then after a little time the toxic reaction sets in after all."
This quote f...
Book: Going: Stories of kinship
Author: Keki N. Daruwalla
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Price: Rs 499
Keki N. Daruwalla’s latest collection of stories, Going, would leave readers with an ac...
Books: Phantom Plague: How tuberculosis shaped history
Author: Vidya Krishnan
Publisher: Viking
Price: 799
From Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain to Ritwik Ghatak’s ...
Book: The Commissioner for Lost Causes
Author: Arun Shourie
Publisher: Viking
Price: Rs 999
Arun Shourie’s memoir fills a gap in the prolific writing already available on some of India&rsquo...
Book: In the Margins: On the pleasures of reading and writing
Author: Elena Ferrante
Publisher: Europa
Price: $14.99
Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of a novelist whose real-life identity, despite...
Book: Untranquil Recollections: Nation Building in post-Liberation Bangladesh
Author: Rehman Sobhan
Publisher: Sage, New Delhi, 2021
Price: Rs 595
It would require a Greek trag...
Julie Banerjee Mehta is an author of Dance of Life and co-author of the bestselling biography Strongman: The Extraordinary Life of Hun Sen. She has a PhD in English and South Asian Studies from the Un...
DW's Shabnam Surita believed she had nothing in common with the boy wizard. But 25 years after J. K. Rowling's first "Harry Potter" book was published, she recalls how their very dif...